When John Hippensteel I was born on 5 July 1774, in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Samuel Hippensteel, was 25 and his mother, Maria Magdaline Bollinger, was 23. He married Mary Hendricks on 4 March 1790. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1810 and Southampton Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He died about 1845, at the age of 72.
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Americanized form of German Hippenstiel, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of handles for scythes, from Middle High German heppe ‘scythe’ + stil ‘handle’.
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